At least 32 people, including children, have been killed in flooding in Afghanistan's southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand. According to the United Nations, 20 people died in Kandahar, with 10 people missing, and 2,000 homes destroyed.
Moscow's Lyublino homeless shelter provides refuge from the Russian winter and offers a thousand beds to the needy. It and five smaller shelters across the capital have helped reduce winter deaths, but some have criticized the push to keep the homeless away from the capital's center.
When soldiers without insignia on their green uniforms seized control of Crimea in 2014, top Russian officials including President Vladimir Putin repeatedly denied that they were Russian... until, a year later, Putin started boasting that actually they were.
Ukrainian Orthodox Christians in Crimea say they have been targeted by the authorities since Russia seized control of the peninsula five years ago. In Simferopol, a Ukrainian archbishop says his congregation is threatened with expulsion from its cathedral.
The "Space Museum" in the small Ukrainian town of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy is housed in a 19th-century Orthodox church. It's one of many buildings that were repurposed or destroyed as part of an antireligion campaign during the Soviet era. It now houses artifacts including a lunar rover.
When Dutchman Ciaran Barr and Norwegian Jorn Bjorn Augestad decided to visit Kabul, they opted to stay with a local host for free via the website couchsurfing.com. The Afghan government says they're risking their safety.
Thailand has deported the woman whose alleged links with a Russian billionaire made international headlines. Belarusian national Anastasia Vashukevich, who also goes by the name Nastya Rybka, was put on a flight leaving Bangkok on January 17.
Russian grandmothers are using Instagram to sell their wooly sweaters and knitted mittens online rather than trading on the streets. They're being helped by a St. Petersburg businesswoman who wants to change public perceptions of the knitwear and its makers.
Residents of the Afghan capital, Kabul, are drilling deeper and deeper for water as the country's drought takes hold. The water shortage has been exacerbated by the city's burgeoning population, which has grown to some five million, boosted by people fleeing war and poverty.
In Russia's remote Sakha-Yakutia region, the frozen ground is studded with the remains of prehistoric mammoths. Their tusks are worth a fortune to traders in China, where the sale of elephant ivory was banned in late 2017.
An adaptation of the popular musical Les Misérables is on stage in Tehran for the first time, and it's a huge hit with local audiences. But there are some subtle differences from other versions of the show: The Iranian actresses can't show their hair, sing solo, or touch their male counterparts.
A Russian businessman gives refuge to exotic wild animals which have been lost or abandoned by their owners.
In Romania's capital, a new children's cancer hospital is under construction that has been funded entirely from private donations. The founders of the NGO behind the project, Give Life, say they're doing the work the state should be doing.
Municipal authorities in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica, unveiled a monument to the late Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito on December 19, the anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi Germany by Tito's partisans in 1944.
Afghan farmers are being encouraged to drop opium poppy production for saffron, sometimes known as "red gold" because of the spice's high price. International aid organizations are supporting the effort, in the hope of reducing the country's massive illicit opium exports.
Thousands of Hungarians have taken to the streets for several nights in a row, accusing the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of attacking the judiciary and passing what's being called a "slave law."
One of the world's coldest cities is warming up, and officials are not happy. Yakutsk, Russia, is built on permafrost -- which is now starting to melt.
People headed to the ballot boxes in Russia's Far Eastern Primorye region in a repeat election for the governor on December 16. This footage comes from the region's administrative center, Vladivostok.
Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoev has called for the modernization of the country's wine industry and brought 60,000 vine cuttings from France. But can the Muslim state transform an ancient tradition into a modern industry which can compete on international markets?
In Siberia's northeastern region of Yakutia, villagers are harvesting ice. Water from the ice is their only source of drinking water through the long winter when the tap water freezes
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